And I know that maybe I should just stick to using 0.3.3-1 but sometimes it is nice knowing you're running the latest and greatest.

edit:

right, so maybe i should've waited a bit before posting this.

after a while of fetching a torrent, rtorrent crashed (looking something like this -- http://www.mail-archive.com/libtorrent- ... 00513.html). after this crash, I could get it to start again, but when trying to rehash the torrent it would crash, with the same error. then all of a sudden I couldn't get rtorrent to start at all, it would just start off with this crash. then I removed all rtorrent ipkgs, and tried running rtorrent (thing that is always there ^). rtorrent would then run, but when I try to download a torrent file, rtorrent just exits.

Not all of them work for the version of rtorrent you are running though, atleast, they don't all work for me (I think (rtorrent 3.3-1), specifically the M^1. anyone know why it says M^/what does this stand for? the command is just pressing the number keys... so I've been told).

Hit enter and paste a link to a torrent file for it to download the torrent and list it.

Hit backspace and paste a link to a torrent file for it to download the torrent and start downloading it.

Hit ctrl-s to start a torrent, ctrl-d to stop a torrent, and ctrl-d again to delete the torrent.

Yes, rtorrent works. However if I quit the terminal then the process halts. With "rtorrent -h" I found "-f: fork to background and become daemon" and "-m Enter multi-task mode. We will get task from shared memory.". But is seems like it does not work (or I am doing it wrong?). Any thoughts on this one?

Secondly I have read here that someone has been switching between controlling torrents from the terminal as well as from redirector, but when I add torrents to rtorrent they do not show up in redirector and when I have torrents active in redirector it rtorrent is empty.

It seems like when using the command rtorrent a new instance of rtorrent is loaded and quited.

if you haven't figured this out yet, you have to run rtorrent in a terminal window manager like 'screen'. I believe you have to install the screen package (ipkg install screen). then run screen by typing 'screen'. Screen gives you a terminal window (or two, or three), that you can launch programs in. You can create new terminal windows in screen, and swtich between them (forgotten commands, search on google.) After launching rtorrent in screen, you can minimize screen by holding ctrl down and pressing a then d. (should say screen has detached). then type exit to quit the ssh connection. Reconnect and type screen -R to reattach teh terminal window.

Many thanks Minority, it works fine now. For any body else who want to use this the commands:
-Start screen just by typing screen (Every program running under screen runs in a window, and every window is identified by a unique number. Screen made a new window, numbered it 0, and started a command shell inside it)
-Ctrl-a c (Make another window; this will be window 1; create window)
-Ctrl-a Ctrl-a (Switching between windows; switch you to whichever window you were using before the current one)
-Ctrl-a n (switch to the next window)
-Ctrl-a p (switch to the previous window)
-Ctrl-a N (switch to the # screen (# is a number from 0 to 9, to switch to the corresponding window)
-Ctrl-a " (full-screen list of windows.
-Ctrl-a w (a small, non-interactive list of windows)
-Ctrl-a A (naming the window)